Flint, Michigan's Southside Hoods Look ROUGH.

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Flint's southside looks pretty rough. However, the neighborhoods on this side of town appear to be in better shape than what we see in other parts of Flint... such as what we see in the north and east sides. Flint still has an assembly plant in town, and we see it in this video. We also see the Bishop International Airport.
0:00 - 4:10 Neighborhoods
4:10 - 5:35 South Flint Plaza Shopping Center
5:35 - 7:48 Another abandoned school.
7:48 - 12:30 Fenton Road
12:30 - 16:42 More hoods
16:42 - 19:00 Atherton Road
19:00 - 22:14 GM Flint Assembly
22:14 - 27:46 Bishop International Airport
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@ChrisHarden Год назад

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@teresafarley6255 Год назад

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@johnultimate1161 Год назад

Chris, great work once again! The South Flint Plaza had a Little Caesars restaurant in the late sixties and early seventies. In 1970 my buddies and I would go there on Friday's and order four pitchers with no glasses and just drink from the pitcher. They had live rock and roll and dancing. We were 18 at the time. Legal age then. The south end of the plaza had a Montgomery Wards that sold boats and motorcycles in the store, with all the rest of the usual stuff too. The Koegel meats factory still makes the BEST hot dog in the world, the Koegel Vienna.

@michaelrowe7329 Год назад

I remember Little Caesars in the 70s! A great family restaurant too! Great pizza and entertainment!

@bobwallace9814 Год назад

I worked in that Ward's hardware dept. My first job at 16.

@lisas946 Год назад

I got a fantastic deal on living room furniture when Value City went out of business.

@lisas946 Год назад

I love that restaurants will make a point of telling you they use Kogels Hot Dogs. They are the best

@ghostmanscores1666 Год назад

Your generation had it better. born '65.

@kenziehorton380 Год назад

This is my neighborhood, I still live there, it's not too dangerous compared to other parts of flint, but it's sad to see how far we've fallen

@bradg5000 Год назад

I used to live behind Baker College

@kodymayhew3104 Год назад

I grew up in this part of Flint. Went to McKinley for kindergarten. This area wasn't so bad 15 or so years ago but has took at hard turn for the worst. Used to be able to ride our bikes all around with no worries as kids.

@hughjhardon8080 Год назад

McKinley was a junior high school

@leedog168 Год назад

Ted's party store is still on hemphill and Camden. Drunks and druggies hang out there. Someone was shot and kied in the lot a couple years ago.

@hughjhardon8080 Год назад

Ted’s party store was a 7-11 when I was a kid. Lots of slurpees bought there.

@Nik.No.K Год назад

The Flint airport is great to have. When relatives come to town it's way better than having to drive down to detroit. TSA is always really quick and easy too because there's hardly anyone there. The only problem is the flights are pretty limited so it can be tricky getting where you want to go if you want to exclusively use Bishop to avoid having to go to the big city

@ChrisHarden Год назад

I used to rip on a friend for flying into and out of Flint… until I saw how nice it can be to get in and out of these smaller airports.

@Gravyballs2011 Год назад

Bishop is a fantastic airport!

@HolyShnikeez_1975 Год назад

Top Hat auto wash was in the movie Semi-pro. Go Tropics!

@jetsons101 Год назад

First step to help Americas cities: Made in America, not made in china. The CCP has no love for America or any other freedom loving country. Chris, another great watch helping to keep the plight of American cities and the need of bringing jobs back.

@Henry_Jones Год назад

Rebuilding these places with made in the usa rhetoric is a pipe dream. Mandating made in the usa just leads to less comperition, less choice, higher prices, lower quality, and other countries block your exports cuz you blocked theirs. Less trade = worse economy for everyone = everyones poorer. Places like flint are their own fault for putting all their eggs in 1 basket, ie GM.

@brianmiller5444 Год назад

@@Henry_Jones You have a point. To some extent, a fortress (name the country) economy approach very rarely works as an economic solution. Besides, it appears the CCP is trying hard to destroy its own country, so.... I would also note that the tragedy of Flint is GM cars largely suck. Why would anyone buy a Chevy Malibu (a few years ago) instead of a Honda Accord or Toyota Camry, I know, UAW, UAW UAW, but the reality is MANAGEMENT designed crappy cars, engineered crappy cars, and then the sloppy workforce built crappy cars. Is it changing? Hahahaha! Look at the utterly stupid new "electric" Hummer. A $100,000 truck with a crappy interior (cheap plastics) and horrible efficiency. I guess if one has a small enough p^&^is or wants a bigger vehicle to drape Trump flags on it makes sense. Otherwise? Korean and Japanese cars are the way to go. The other mistake in his argument is the CCP did not cause American deindustrialization. America's ruling class decided it was more profitable to run "financial engineering" firms and spreadsheet diddling rather than actually running a manufacturer. There is always someone desperate enough to take on the crap factory jobs. For lower wages. And that's what they did. Look in the mirror for who "did it" to the industrial midwest.

@jetsons101 Год назад

@@Henry_Jones Manurfacturing is the backbone of any country, next a country must control its supply chain and control its borders, or it is no longer a country. The dem's have no love for America and are more than happy to give the above to the CCP. Flint did have the misfortune of being a one company town but that is no reason to write it off. It was American manufacturing that built the greatest middle class in the world.

@PhilWorley Год назад

@@Henry_JonesWrong, our country was doing great until Nixon opened up trade with China. It’s not the fault of the people of Flint. The blame lies solely on DC & it’s anti U.S. worker trade deals that has decimated our towns & cities as well as the middle class. The people of these cities that were affected sure as hell never had a say in it.

@Henry_Jones Год назад

@@PhilWorley country was "doing great" cuz the rest of the world was developing or rebuilding from ww2! Before ww2 there was the depression. If the jobs didnt go to china theyd go to another developing country in fact they did. Mexico, milaysia, korea, taiwan, etc. What would you do? Throw up tarriff walls to try and preserve jobs that are gonna get automated anyway? Have those countries block your countries goods and servicrs and kill your expory market? The whole "back in my day you could goto the factory amd get a job that paid well for life!" Was a POP CULTURE MYTH! And a DANGEROUS one at that. It breeds entitlement and brainwashed all these rustbelt people to think education didnt matter, I can always just get a job at the factory. We dont need to diversify the economy we have gm, bethlehem steel, chrysler, etc. Well guess what, the world rebult redeveloped amd while the us got fat dumb and happy they got better newer industry that wiped all those old jobs out.

@Lylo-mj8ek Год назад

I grew up right near Bishop AP. Our house was right in line with the main runway as the ✈ would drop so low you could see the people in the windows. 😂

@GazeldaS Год назад

Me too. I lived near Bendle High School, right under the flight path. It was great when they did their big airshow in the summer. No need to go anywhere. Saw it from. The back yard. These videos break my heart.

@jenniferschramm8560 Год назад

Love your videos. Love that you put street in bottom right corner. Very helpful and well done. Kudos!

@bouttopullup5127 Год назад

Out of everyone that does ride along videos, Chris does the best. I really like how he puts the info at the bottom of the screen (time, date, street name) I also appreciate the veiw out of the side windows from time to time too. Great job! Keep up the great work!!!

@lisas946 Год назад

I was flying out of Bishop Airport for work frequently before the pandemic - when Delta was still operating there. Yes it forces a stop in Detroit, but still so nice to begin and end my travels at this little airport. It's super easy to navigate with all gates in one large room. It's clean and so convenient to park within walking distance of the main (only) terminal. Detroit is a massive airport in comparison and over an hour away from my home. Now that may be my only option when I have to travel for work again. Not looking forward to it 🥺

@DonCrandell Год назад

The area from 12th Street to Hemphill along Fenton Rd. is where I grew up. Grew up on Bloor in the 50's to the mid 60's. I went to Cody and McKinley, saw where Cody used to be, saw my old street. Lot of good memories of us kids playing down to Lincoln Park. Worked at Flint V-8 Engine Plant until it closed. Thanks for the video, lots of good memories . Was a good place to live and grow up as a kid back then.

@deborah2063 Год назад

As a resident of Genesee County I enjoy your videos. It's so heartbreaking to see the city I was born & raised in such a state of decay. May I suggest you put a N, S, E or W in front of the street names.

@ladyofjazz448 Год назад

Thanks so much for giving us such an informative and close look at my hometown. Born and raised, I left in 1991 when things started getting bad. It has just gone downhill from there. Flint will never come back. GM decimated Flint. That's the main reason Flint is now on the decline and will forever be. It's too gone for there to be any substantial recovery. Still go back from time to time as I have all my family there still except my mom and dad. It breaks my heart to see this once thriving city turn into such blight and poverty. You've covered it well. All you are showing and saying about Flint is true. Sadly, it will never be the way it used to be.

@Lorrainecats Год назад

Totally heartbreaking 💔

@Henry_Jones Год назад

The Ford River Rouge plant is older and still in operation.

@jerryspencer5453 Год назад

Born and raised in Flint. It's never been a great place to live. Not all bad but, don't get caught in the wrong place at the wrong time.

@bethrubley2378 Год назад

Bishop airport is so nice, small, convenient, no traffic, no crowds. So much better than flying out of Detroit.

@mommyquackquack1825 Год назад

Everyday people just trying to survive and get through another day. One day at a time in a messed up world. You forgot to mentioned many auto junkyards and John DeLorean ran that plant back in the day. The train yard across the street from Bishop. Yes, Flint style Coney's with a Kogel hot dog.

@SkullCandy5671 Год назад

3:27 My grand mother grew up in that house, it was a perfectly nice looking home until about 4-5 years ago when my great uncle who lived in it passed away. My grandmother wasn't able to keep it up and nobody in the family wanted to help so it sat and rot. There was a beautiful grand piano in the sunroom (the room that is closest to the camera). At one point a drunk driver had crashed into the side of it and made a huge hole. I guess people were squatting in it and then there was some sort of fire.

@legendarytoby Год назад

My condolences, it sounds like it was a good home. Now it's just another victim of arson like a lot of buildings in Flint. 😢

@kelliemishmish Год назад

This was fun, thanks for these videos! (Fun, sad, nostalgic)

@sbell5702 Год назад

Bishop is great, and when you don't want to travel to Detroit, it's a pretty viable option. It can be pricey, but the convienece for ppl from Genesee Co., North Oakland Co. and other surrounding areas, it's nice to have that option.

@jrhaven Год назад

19:22 was really cool to see for me. I lived in Flint from the time I was born until just after I turned 6, when we moved to away due to my dad's unemployment. We used to live up by McLaren hospital, and our church was to the east of the airport there on Bristol Rd, so I have many memories of driving past that GM assembly plant as we did that trip twice a week for a while. Thanks for the nostalgia, Chris!

@Henry_Jones Год назад

Michael Moores 1989 movie Roger and Me screamed DONT MOVE HERE! He sure didnt stay.

@randalscandal1588 Год назад

Great job!!

@Whatisthis195 Год назад

Do you think you’ll ever do a series on Saginaw? That’s where I’m around and would love to see your take on it!

@ChrisHarden Год назад

Yup! Not sure when but one day I will

@duaneringlein133 Год назад

I grew up on the south side of Flint, graduating from Ainsworth High School in 1971. It was a great city back then to grow up, I left to join the Air Force after graduation, and now rarely go back, though I still have family living in the area. For reference I now live in Western North Carolina, the last place I was stationed before retiring from the Air Force.

@richardcapeling1293 11 месяцев назад

where was Ainsworth high school ? I went to Flint Southwestern grad in 1971

@GazeldaS Год назад

These videos on the south side of Flint break my heart. As a little girl I learned to swim at Lincoln Park pool. We spent half of our summer days there. And the mall on Fenton Rd was a great place to shop. Had an awesome 5 and dime store that sold fabric. Mom made us a lot of clothes from that fabric. Bishop airport is great. I still live close enough that i can catch a flight there. Very relaxed, less crowd, and long term parking is reasonable. Koegels makes the best hot dogs. Breaks my heart.💔💔

@dhyde9207 Год назад

I think its appropriate that the flags are at half staff. In mourning for the death of a once great city.

@johnhalverson1133 Год назад

My father was the first store manager of the Wrigley supermarket in the South Flint Plaza in the early 60's. It was a thriving mall with every store in operation. We lived a few blocks away on Markham Street.

@AlexanderWaylon Год назад

Nice Video!

@ChrisHarden Год назад

Thanks man!

@kelliemishmish Год назад

Shops left south flint plaza due to lack of security. People sh!tting on the sidewalk, theft, nothing done about it. Michigan video stayed the longest. Jo annes fabics, value city was around for awhile, i spent a lot of time here. McCrory s 5&10, pawn shops, arcade, way back the Little Ceasers with the knights outside the doors. Hamadys used to be off to the side there. Then it was save a lot. Dont know if still there. (Still watching video. Killing time waiting for the vet, cat in car w me...) enjoying my old neighborhood and memories. I don't live far but i don't travel that way anymore.

@ChrisHarden Год назад

I've had multiple ppl comment tell me about the amount of bums there are in Flint that... uh... relieve themselves in public.

@leedog168 Год назад

I live just across hemphill.. but in Burton. I like to see my town from an other set of eyes and thoughts.. unlike some others, I enjoy your videos

@rorshakks Год назад

I like that the liquor/lotto stores give people hope.

@dalepalovich6696 Год назад

Just ran across your report. I’m a former Flintite- until 1974. Sad to see McKinley 😢 and the whole mess.

@johnultimate1161 Год назад

Hello Dale. John Boucher here.

@dalepalovich6696 Год назад

@@johnultimate1161 ??

@johnultimate1161 Год назад

@@dalepalovich6696 I don't usually leave my full name on internet comments. I can be brusk. Ultimate is a name for one of my sxs i have. Used it to substitute for a real last name and it's now the name on my Google account so that is what shows on my comments.

@johnultimate1161 Год назад

We went to Flint Southwestern, class of 70. Go Colts!

@dalepalovich6696 Год назад

@@johnultimate1161 sorry. That was a while ago.

@mikebo3667 Год назад

It hasn't been called Lincoln Park since late 60's early 70's when it was renamed Broome Park. I lived 3 blocks south of Neubert Ave and Tuxedo in the 50's as a kid and that is where the public bathrooms were along with one of several ball diamonds. .0:00 - 0.59 you started out very near where the swimming pool was located. I think it was closed in the late 70's and filled in in the 80's. 1:55 The annexation was in the late 60's. It was more then the assembly plant. It also included the V-8 Engine Plant and the Chevrolet Frame and Stamping Plant (Flint Metal Center) from which my dad and I retired. This hurt the Carmen School District a little bit taking funds from the plants tax base and sending it to the Flint School System. My parents and I moved a mile south east from the plant in 1963 and I graduated from Ainsworth High School which was in the Carmen School District. 4:45 Value City is were Federal Department Store was the original tenant in the 60's -early 80's. 4:54 Storage was the Fair department store. 9:46 To the right was Cody Elementary School that now is a large empty lot. 20:42 - 21:07 The engine plant. 21:35 - 22:12 The plant on the right is the Flint Metal Center.

@patsywaycaster9233 Год назад

You went right by my st off Fenton Rd. I know everything you said it just right but saying and showing Flint. My whole family worked at GM plants and two sons still do. I know the water has been cleaned but every body still buys bottled water. Thank you for doing this, maybe some day we will be compensated lol

@matchesmalone79 Год назад

The water is still messed up, actually. It is still not clean enough to drink without a good filter. Abc12 new just ran a story a few days ago. "While weekly bottled water donations have ended for citizens of Flint, Michigan, according to city officials, the water crisis there is ongoing. Health officials are urging residents to continue to use faucet filters certified to remove lead until the residential lead service line replacement is completed."- abc news

@user-tu5qh5wi8r Год назад

Everything from that Urban Dictionary entry about Dort Highway packed up and moved to Fenton Road around 2010.

@GreatLakesDrifta Год назад

Haha, no, fascinating to me, too. Bishop also attracts passengers from northern Oakland county as well.

@gatorgreen4344 9 месяцев назад

Thanks brother I was from Flint then moved out in 2000

@itsKeMonte Год назад

When you turn down Atherton Road, it used to be a four-lane road and they converted into a two lane road with a middle lane and added sidewalks for people to walk on back in 2017

@jays.4254 27 дней назад

This is the first in watching all the video that I’ve seen you drive by the GM assembly plant in Flint and I had no idea how nice their airport is. I sure hope Flint can pull out of its misery one day. It was such a nice town and it still can be.

@dylanbrady4117 Год назад

South flint plaze home to the # 4 little ceasers store it had a bar and arcade in it they actually handmade the pizza in front of you

@kelliemishmish Год назад

17:01 - on the right, my old house, more accurately, apartment. We lived upstairs when i was younger, eventually moved downstairs. Had my bedroom in the basement. It looks completely different now. I moved out around 16 or 17. Lots of memories. My mom wanted to see it a couple years ago and a lot had changed. It was being remodeled. Now it looks abandoned.

@jag92949 Год назад

Delta used to have direct flights from Flint to Atlanta. It’s my favorite airport.

@Henry_Jones Год назад

Minivan rental! Nice! We can see from the reflection at the airport. You can sleep in that thing.

@ChrisHarden Год назад

Drove that same thing down to New Orleans the next day. Then drove it through the entire city of New Orleans before driving all the way back to Michigan.

@kelliemishmish Год назад

Omg so many memories. Used to ride bikes thru here all the time. This is where a friend amd were walking, by Sunset restaurant, when another friend saw us and pulled over to tell us kurt cobain got shot. That's all the details he had. We had to walk home and watch tv, radio, and wait for more info. I was in 10th grade maybe and a nirvana fan. It was heartbreaking.

@spitfire_33 10 месяцев назад

You're correct, it's crazy.

@kelliemishmish Год назад

The Berry Patch :) lol Edit: nope not the berry patch. I was off a bit! Now I'm trying to remember...should be nearby tho. Can't believe how Lincoln Park looks now. I never swam at the pool but we used to go there and fly kites or just hang out. They have (had?) a nice baseball stadium there.

@kelliemishmish Год назад

7:13 - mr hookys history class. That window on the corner never shut right and when the wind blew it'd make a funny noise

@lavapix Год назад

Yep, HNL airport does need upgrading. KOA in Kona is still an outdoor airport with that great local vibe. Some morons want to enclose it.

@1974Imperium Месяц назад

Wow, you talked about the airport and kogels but failed to mention right across the street is the OLD Grand Trunk Railroad (Now CN RAIL) Flint Railyard. It's been there for a very long time and services the General Motors plant to this day.

@ChrisHarden Месяц назад

Why mention a rail yard?

@hooperdavid1980 Год назад

Pretty much right next to my house it's across from the food store on corner of hemphill n Fenton rd on hemphill

@kathleenfischhaber1435 Год назад

Grew up in Flint. Flew out of Bishop, solo as a ten year old back in the 1960's to Erie Pa. It was a direct flight and a prop plane at that. I now live outside Atlanta Ga. I am so sad to see what Flint has come to. My dad was a professor at the then, GMI. Our church was Christ Episcopal Church.

@DennisW19copyy-lg1du 3 месяца назад

I remember back in the mid 80's I was at a gathering at the Hyatt downtown and the mayor made a statement about the rough railroad tracks at the Chevy plant. The mayor black topped over the tracks and said that railroad and General Motors won't push the city of Flint around. The tracks and the plant are no longer there.

@thalleshoward3962 6 месяцев назад

When you went under that bridge on Fenton rd. that said Grand Funk RR my buddies and I are responsible for that. That was done way back in 1978. And it is still up.

@Diddley-js6lf Год назад

Flint will absolutely turn it around because they can’t even have a council meeting. The meetings are a joke. I live north of flint. I grew up in the Beecher District, I get so broken hearted because it’s so rundown.

@Gravyballs2011 Год назад

9:10 one of these small store fronts used to sell terrific breakfast back in the 90s. I was there a few times and I think it was called Zora's. Does that ring a bell with anyone?? 10:09 this used to be a donut shop (among other things throughout the years) I recall going there with a friend after watching the remains of Autoworld imploding in '97 The donut shop had a halfway house as a neighbor. Some of the denizens of the halfway house would spend hours at the donut shop planning the day's activities.

@robb1715 Год назад

Zoras was bomb and she was funny

@thalleshoward3962 6 месяцев назад

My Dad used to run the Air Freight delivery service out of the Airport and it was small back then compared to it now. The Airport is actually a good part of Flint.

@leedog168 Год назад

Fisher Body was was closed in 87.. my dad retired from there

@amandabarber9657 11 месяцев назад

This is still my town. And I still live here make my way ok. Times are tough but we make it day to day. I was here before it was all gone the last 20 years have been the worst

@joshuahoover6841 Год назад

I used to live across from the berry patch in the late 90s early 2000s. It was still pretty nice pack then. Now it looks empty and scary

@mazberry97 Год назад

Are you going to do a series on Saginaw?

@ChrisHarden Год назад

Yup. Don’t know when though

@stirtheimagination88 Год назад

I'm not sure what you mean by 'turn things around'. You mean getting better, I'm sure, but no one can agree on what that means.Flint could introduce measures to streamline services, rezone for business and affordable housing, make policies that are friendly to industry (if industry ever returns to US shores) or any number of other options. But since Flint no longer has any money and won't be getting any anytime soon, none of those options are feasible. That leaves the only thing left: let it continue to slowly be reclaimed by mother nature until there is nothing left. We'll become a ghost town eventually with no choice but to move to the bigger cities for things like jobs, hospitals, food resources, education, etc. Which I think is the continuing plan for herding the masses into cities. So the short answer is: no. Flint cannot 'turn things around."

@ChrisHarden Год назад

You know what I mean by turn things around. You just wrote an opinion piece answering the question. 😜

@erictrantham9903 2 месяца назад

@5:48 the Auto Wash was featured in Semi-Pro

@markchristopher2509 Год назад

Ah yes, Flint Bishop Airport. Peeps in Saginaw to the north and it's cheaper flying into Flint. Rust belt Michigan is still ailing.

@bobwallace9814 Год назад

On the positive side, the employee parking at that massive plant is a breeze and the shift change traffic is easy in and easy out now. Also potential companies pondering a move to Flint can chuck those "college degree" percentages of the local yokels to "high school" grads. If the whole city graduates less than 250 citywide, the most profitable businesses moving in would be the illegal pharmaceutical or liquor/lotto/check cashing/phone sale stores.

@MrBerndvonfunk Год назад

As the supply chain fragments, countries are forced to return to manufacturing their own goods, Flint may be a good place to plant a seed of revival for new economic recovery. You could open chop stick manufacturer.

@charlest5604 Год назад

The problem is that Flint has a heavy union influence (UAW & Teamsters) and anytime a large business shows interest, they get scared away by the unions.

@rorshakks Год назад

Is Playland there still? How about Alladin's Castle at the Genesee Valley Mall?

@MissyC777 11 месяцев назад

Only Genesee Valley is still here

@rorshakks 11 месяцев назад

@@MissyC777 Wait the mall is still there?

@Hannahsunshine- 4 месяца назад

Wait a darn second. Did you pronounce it hem fill road instead of hemp hill? 😅

@kelliemishmish Год назад

3:45 - the grocery store on the corner- when i was a kid they had Nintendo game rentals!!! We'd get groceries and I'd rent a Nintendo game... best times ever

@kelliemishmish Год назад

🤣7:24 my walk home to atherton rd Usually I'd go the other street over to the right but sometimes this way Walked to all my schools here, cody, mckinley, southwestern( fswa) Bussed to dillon, doyle-ryder Finally was able to take bus to fswa maybe 11th grade or so, they measured the distance and i qualified...the bus passed right in front of our house anyway

@kelliemishmish Год назад

25:50 nice save! 🤣

@albertmyers7176 Год назад

what vid has the corvette show ??/

@pmskyV Год назад

Your almost to farmlands West of Linden anywhere Go check out Almar Organic Orchards on Duffield Farm 100 +yrs old farms around here sometime don't even have to wait till Autumn ...

@kelliemishmish Год назад

24:27 - ? It used to be cheaper. We went to dallas, flew flint to detroit, one stop in between to dallas. That was...2006 ~ish. Lol..."tiny airports" yeah i guess, i didn't see Detroit really we just went through the funkadellic tunnel there, ate at the next one, and Dallas was huge, but bishop being my only real reference- *gasp, "tiny" airport? What?

@autumnwise4847 Год назад

They moved the street walkers and dealers off dort and tore down a couple clubs so they moved to Fenton Rd. That's why.

@coyfpv1271 Год назад

Doing my part to help defeat the evil RU-vid algorithm

@ChrisHarden Год назад

That’s what’s up 💪🏻

@0sky88 Год назад

Forgot to mention that Fenton Rd is nicknamed "Fentanyl Rd".

@ChrisHarden Год назад

Haha that’s because I didn’t know. Someone else commented that and I thought the nickname was hilarious. Wish I would’ve known.

@athisio836 Год назад

I heard one of those old auto plant sites was demolished but can not be reused due to the amount of chemicals the plant leaked into the ground.

@melindaherron7750 Год назад

40 years. That’s why you will see nothing there but maybe a park. I surprised the city of Flint would allow this.

@Lorrainecats Год назад

@@melindaherron7750 I'm not surprised at all. Their city government doesn't care.

@Henry_Jones Год назад

Nothings sadder than an abandoned school. It just shows the future is dead.

@Cool13625 Год назад

Drove by on a nice day no bodies on the sidewalks!

@Henry_Jones Год назад

What plant was #4? I knoe if buick city, chevy in the hole, and flint assembly (still open).

@pkmoutl Год назад

Truck & Bus, if memory serves. I had a neighbor who worked at T&B, and my uncle was head engineer for the T&B Division through the late 80's and 90's until he retired.

@Henry_Jones Год назад

@@pkmoutl thx for the reply!

@Heelvelsper Год назад

@ 6:22 i work at the liquor store opposite mckinley and was probably on shift when you drove by =P i talk to the homeless blokes you filmed on the regular. also @5:50 i know the guy who owns that green car you gta comedy spot paused for =)

@Lorrainecats Год назад

I used to take my cats to the vet by that party store on Hemphill.

@Henry_Jones Год назад

Poor Flint

@nolie_seth598 Год назад

I live right by that south flint plaza

@kelliemishmish Год назад

Hate driving thru that part of fenton rd. Used to ride my bike there when i was a kid and even then it was... well we just knew to be carefull. But it looks so bad now. Just even worse. I went to Cody and hated it. The kids there were some kind of extra cruel. The school i went to before, the kids were mostly pleasant. Them Cody kids were just different. Grown up too fast. First day of school i see a kid being carried off in a stretcher from a fight. 4-6th grade and so glad to get away.

@rockstarmentality 11 месяцев назад

Grew up on the south right across from civic hood/park went to northern it wasnt that bad at all.

@kelliemishmish Год назад

11:55 - they're still painting it lol 👍

@hughjhardon8080 Год назад

Leo’s Red Ribbon bar on Fenton Rd. was awesome.

@leedog168 Год назад

Robert T Longway is one that has heritage in Flint

@G00gLe_was_my_idea989 Год назад

Ahh good ol Flint Michigan, where I have forever burned into my psyche, what a man taking a crap on his front lawn looks like. Haven't watched the video yet but I'm almost certain your gonna drive right past the spot too and I'm gonna get to relive the most awkward moment of my life all over again. Yay 😐 I almost don't even want to watch this episode lol Edit: nope you're on the Southside, my incident was just coming into the Eastside off the expressway.

@Lorrainecats Год назад

There is one about the east side.

@meganbrown8221 Год назад

And around the corner from the GM plant is Flint Heights Terrace Apartments for seniors on disability. 3 catalytic converters stolen last week alone🤦

@ChrisHarden Год назад

Awful

@Lorrainecats Год назад

Yup. Happened in our little town two years ago. Flint crime is spilling into the suburbs

@duckie0892 Год назад

That's so sad 😞

@jag92949 Год назад

The worst airports I’ve been to in the US were Miami and LAX.

@Ruffi0 Год назад

Love ya flint.

@user-dm3cg2cf3f 8 месяцев назад

devastated!

@ChrisHarden 8 месяцев назад

Yup!

@danwebb5118 Год назад

Another great one. South Flint Plaza, in the mid 60s was super popular. Also, the Gravely dealer was just a bit north, on Fenton Road. I think Flint would be in worse shape than if they had not suffered a "water crisis".